Sentence examples for soil preparation from inspiring English sources

Intensive soil preparation and large amounts of lime and fertiliser require scale and capital.

Soil preparation for vegetable growing involves many of the usual operations required for other crops.

Teff is a labour-intensive crop and requires significant soil preparation to ensure even sowing and proper seed depth.

Agriculture ministry officials want to slow soil erosion with reforestation and watershed-management programmes, and to tutor farmers in seed selection, soil preparation and growing techniques.

Thorough soil preparation, high fertility, constant weeding, and careful record keeping are part of the intensive production, which requires much hand labour.

A little cold weather will not bother them, and with a bit of soil preparation, you can create a cottage-style garden border or a wildflower meadow that's blooming by midsummer: try Pictorial Meadows (pictorialmeadows.co.uk) or Nicky's Nursery (nickys-nursery.co.uk) for hardy annual seed mixes.

As for the field trials, EPNs were also compared to insecticide tuber coatings and to the locally practised handpicking of grubs during soil preparations and mechanical weed control.

Prior to land preparation, soil samples from the top 0 15 cm depth were collected from the experimental site for laboratory analysis.

Such practices have exerted serious impacts on the soil resources during ground preparation, making the rangeland more vulnerable to subsequent soil erosion.

If this is the case, sprouting of tubers might be suppressed if farmers maintained anaerobic soil conditions during land preparation before transplanting or direct seeding.

Pre-cropping chemical analysis of the experimental soil was carried out before land preparation (Table 2).